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Chapter 634 What kind of monsters are they? They even sank a warship? (2 updates)
Smoke billowed across the sea.

Shinichi and Heiji stared in disbelief at Shiraishi E's actions—he carried a rocket launcher on his shoulder, his posture as steady as a mountain, and despite the speedboat violently rocking in the waves, every shot he fired was outrageously accurate.

"boom!"

Another helicopter turned into a fireball in the air, and its wreckage fell into the sea like raindrops.

"The seventh one," Shinichi muttered to himself, nearly dropping the binoculars. "How is this possible?"

Heiji rubbed his eyes, making sure he wasn't seeing things: "We fired seven or eight shots and they all grazed the target, how could you manage to kill them with every single one of them?"

Shiraishi calmly loaded a rocket, a faint smile playing on her lips: "I trained at the special training base in Hawaii. I fired over a thousand shells before I achieved this level of accuracy."

"Hawaii?" Shinichi looked up and asked, "Where exactly is that? I want to go study there too!"

"Take me with you!" Heiji immediately chimed in, "I'll pay whatever it costs!"

Instead of answering directly, Shiraishi E aimed at the eighth helicopter: "Let's talk about it after we survive."

Before the words were even finished, the rocket had already been fired and hit the target accurately.

The sea returned to calm temporarily when the last helicopter exploded in mid-air.

Shinichi and Heiji looked at each other, both seeing disbelief in each other's eyes.

"Is this really not a dream?" Shinichi murmured. "Shooting down helicopters from a combat boat is difficult enough... and now it's eight hits out of eight?"

Heiji suddenly reached out and pinched Shinichi's arm.

"Ouch!" Shinichi cried out.

"It doesn't seem like a dream." Heiji nodded seriously. "But this is even more unbelievable than a dream!!"

"Everyone says reality is more absurd than fiction. I didn't believe it before, but now... I do." Shinichi patted his face, forcing himself to accept this reality.

Miwako Sato turned around from the driver's seat, her tone filled with amazement: "My shooting instructor at the police academy was a former member of the Self-Defense Forces special forces, but even he couldn't do this."

Shiraishi E retracted the rocket launcher and said, "Everyone has their own expertise. I'm good at handling guns and cannons, but I'm not as good at deduction as you guys."

These words helped the other three regain some confidence.

But then Sato Miwako thought to herself, "My reasoning isn't as good as Shinichi Heiji's."

My emotions plummeted to rock bottom.

The brief joy was quickly dispelled by reality.

Heiji gazed at the distant, mountain-like frigate and sighed, "The helicopter problem is solved, but what about this behemoth?"

Shinichi frowned as well: "Our rockets can't cause any fatal damage to the armor of our main warships."

The three men counted the remaining ammunition: there were only four rockets, and they were all ordinary warheads, not armor-piercing rounds.

“Perhaps,” Shiraishi E suddenly spoke up, “we can try a different approach.”

He pointed to the waterline of the frigate: "Just ram it, use the speedboats and the remaining ammunition as bombs, and cut a hole in the hull."

Shinichi immediately objected: "That's too risky! Let alone whether we can even break through the gap, how are we going to escape?"

Heiji's eyes lit up: "Wait, this plan might work. I remember this speedboat is a twin-engine design, with a top speed of 60 knots. If we take into account the explosive power of the remaining fuel..."

Sato quickly calculated: "With four rockets detonating at the same time, it is indeed possible to tear through the ship's armor."

"But what about the escape time?" Shinichi was still worried: "From the time of detonation to jumping into the sea, we only have a few seconds of window."

Shiraishi E smiled and said, "That's easy. You guys jump into the sea first, and then I'll drive the yacht to ram it... When it gets really critical, I'll jump off the boat."

"Isn't this too dangerous?" Shinichi still felt that the plan was too risky.

Heiji sighed and said, "But the problem is, there's no other way besides this."

"Shiraishi-kun, are you sure you can handle this?" Sato Miwako asked, concerned for his safety.

“Of course! I don’t have the noble morality of sacrificing myself for others.” Shiraishi said, stuffing the life jacket into Shinichi’s arms.

Seeing that Shinichi was about to say something, he simply kicked him, sending him flying into the sea.

Shinichi cried out in surprise and fell into the sea with a splash, but quickly floated back up, clutching a life jacket.

"Let's all get in the sea, don't waste time," Shiraishi E said to Heiji and Sato Miwako. Without further ado, the two put on their life jackets and quickly jumped into the sea.

Without wasting any words, Shiraishi E steered the yacht at top speed, rushing towards the frigate like an arrow released from a bow.

On his way forward, he frantically bought explosives in the bandit mall, filling the warship to the brim with them, causing the draft to rise rapidly.

Fortunately, they were far enough away that even Shinichi didn't notice anything amiss.

The sailors on the frigate were clearly caught off guard by this crazy move and were unable to react effectively for a moment.

800 meters!
600 meters!
400 meters!
Once Shiraishi realized the distance was sufficient, she jumped off the combat boat, grabbed the underwater thruster, and quickly left the scene of the crime.

A few seconds later, the combat boat slammed into the waterline of the frigate.

"Boom——!!!"

A deafening explosion rang out, and a huge fireball soared into the air.

The simultaneous explosion of a massive number of bombs generated astonishing destructive power, tearing a hole in the hull of the frigate!
Seawater surged wildly into the ship's hull through the breach.

The damaged area is like a greedy, gaping maw, constantly swallowing seawater.

The frigate began to list noticeably, and the sailors on deck were in chaos.

Sato Miwako surfaced from the sea, staring in astonishment at the sight before her: "It actually...success!"

Heiji swam to his side, panting, and said, "This joke has gone too far. It seems like we've sunk a destroyer."

Shinichi noticed something amiss and said, "That's strange. Don't you guys think this bomb is a bit too powerful? Can just four rockets make that much noise?"

"This..." Neither Heiji nor Miwako Sato could answer.

Shinichi also thought it was impossible, but the facts were right in front of him, and he didn't know how to explain it.

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Meanwhile, in the distance, on a helicopter...

Inside the helicopter cockpit, Hakuba Saguru's long, slender fingers gripped the control stick tightly, his eyes widening slightly in shock.

Through a high-powered telescope, he witnessed the incredible battle unfolding on the sea.

When he saw that the small speedboat had actually blown a huge hole in the waterline of the frigate, he couldn't help but gasp.

"How...how is this possible?" Hakuba Saguru muttered to himself, unable to maintain even the composure of an English gentleman. "What kind of monsters are they? They even sank a warship?"

In the back seat, Sera Masumi and Koshimizu Nanatsuki were also squeezed by the porthole, their faces filled with disbelief.

Sera Masumi's short hair was blown into a mess by the airflow from the helicopter, but she didn't care about fixing it at all, she just stared intently at the frigate that was slowly tilting.

"I thought it would be good enough if they could escape," Sera Masumi's voice carried a hint of lingering fear, "I never expected they would actually sink the entire destroyer."

Nanatsuki Koshimizu instinctively gripped the armrest of her seat, her knuckles turning white from the force: "Luckily we ran fast. If we were still on that ship now..."

She didn't finish her sentence, but the other two understood what she meant.

Hakuba Saguru slowly lowered the helicopter's altitude, allowing everyone to see the chaotic scene on the sea more clearly.

The frigate had listed at a dangerous angle, and sailors on deck jumped into the sea to escape like dumplings being dropped into a pot. Lifeboats were frantically launched into the sea, and disputes frequently broke out over the life-saving equipment.

"It seems that Tsuchio Hiroki has completely failed this time." Hakuba Saguru's tone was somewhat sarcastic. "I wonder how the organization will deal with this defeated general."

As Hakuba Saguru maneuvered the helicopter and hovered over the sea, he looked at the chaotic scene below and suddenly chuckled: "Looking back now, it was the wisest decision we made to escape the frigate beforehand."

Koshimizu Nanatsuki nodded in agreement: "If we had left five minutes later, we would probably be in the same situation as those people who were trying to get into the lifeboats."

She pointed to several sailors below who were wrestling over life jackets, her tone tinged with pity.

For a moment, all three of them had mixed feelings.

If they stay and fight alongside them, they'll definitely have this experience on their detective resume!

Of course, others won't believe it.

(End of this chapter)